Stage Check
This Erikson stage in middle childhood focuses on building competence and confidence in skills.
What is Industry vs. Inferiority?
In middle childhood, this setting becomes the main place where kids develop skills and self-esteem.
What is school?
This 2025 horror film features twin brothers returning to the Jim Crow South and facing a supernatural evil.
What is Sinners?
This perspective focuses on how different systems (family, school, community) influence a person.
What is the systems perspective?
Children who can think logically about concrete things but struggle with abstract ideas are in this Piaget stage.
* DOUBLE * What is Concrete Operational?
Children who are well-liked by peers tend to show better school performance and this social outcome.
What is higher self-esteem?
This 2024 animated film follows a robot named Roz who crash-lands on an island and bonds with animals.
What is The Wild Robot?
This perspective asks, “Who has power and who is marginalized?”
What is the conflict perspective?
This adolescent Erikson stage centers on figuring out “Who am I?”
What is Identity vs. Role Confusion?
This form of bullying involves exclusion, rumors, or damaging relationships rather than physical harm.
* DOUBLE * What is relational bullying?
This 2025 mystery horror movie centers on a classroom where nearly all the children mysteriously disappear in one night.
What is Weapons?
This perspective focuses on how behavior is learned through reinforcement.
What is the behavioral perspective?
Young adults trying to build close relationships without losing themselves are in this stage.
What is Intimacy vs. Isolation?
Friendships in middle childhood become more based on this quality, rather than just shared activities.
What is trust (or mutual understanding)?
This Disney sequel brings back Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde for another case in the animal metropolis.
What is Zootopia 2?
This perspective emphasizes meaning-making and how reality is shaped by culture and language.
* DOUBLE * What is the social constructionist perspective?
In middle adulthood, this Erikson stage focuses on contributing to others and future generations.
What is Generativity vs. Stagnation?
Supportive relationships and mentoring are examples of this.
What are protective factors?
This Pixar film follows a young boy accidentally transported across the galaxy and mistaken for Earth’s ambassador.
What is Elio?
This perspective focuses on growth, self-determination, and reaching one’s potential.
What is the humanistic perspective?